Stylish Rudolph defies doctors to reach the top

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CAST your mind back to 1994 and the first Test between England and South Africa for 29 years at Lord’s. It happened on the second day, when England struggled to 141 for seven in reply to South Africa’s 357. Jacques Rudolph, then 13, was out hunting rabbits with his father on the high veld near Pretoria. Standing in the back of a pick-up, young Jacques was shot in the stomach by a freak accident when a friend’s 9mm pistol went off as the vehicle turned sharply right. Rudolph thought he was going to die, but, after two weeks in intensive